evilgeenius2 wrote:Freeplay seems totally pointless to me and it will only stop people from playing ranked games.

Presumably, it was added so we can test changes without affecting our ELO? If I want to test some extreme changes then I can just play normal ranked games. If the changes don't work then I can just revert the changes and quickly get back my ELO.

Nobody is ever perfectly happy with their AI and there are always improvments to be made. If people only experimented with changes in freeplay mode then ranked mode would never be used.

The whole point of this game is to vary your AI and see if it works and see how your elo is affected. I really don't see the need for Freeplay at all - i think it will confuse new players who won't be sure when to play freeplay or ranked. Some players will play mostly ranked, and others will play freeplay and then occassionally ranked, and some a mix, and the result will be that we all miss out becausse there won't be enough ranked or freeplay games in the quere.

Also, playing freeplay game against players with a 1000 delta is annoying as you are forced into watching it.

1. Not everyone wants to always play with their ranking on the line, and not everyone will switch off of ranked. The main advantage of unranked is being able to freely test new, possibly revolutionary, ideas without the possibility to be demoted and lose rank.2. Request: Can we see all currently deployed matches in unranked, including the players and the map ("random" being a valid map)? Also, can I re-request that setups from one mode don't carry over to the next?

"Also, can I re-request that setups from one mode don't carry over to the next?"

+1

Agreed. We should be able to experiment without worrying that we'll screw up the AI selection in ranked mode.

When viewing games the AI is no longer shown above the units head. This makes is impossible to know which AIs youve chosen at a glance, which is really important. The only way to do it is to click the unit, wait for the AI to load, then zoom into the top of the map to see the name.

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